Lives in Cricket No 52 - Schooled in Cricket (2nd edition)

38 with Johnny coming second – both making it into the league bowling averages. Windhill’s club website contrasts the two bowlers: “Leading figures of those early championship years included Squire Render and Johnny Lawrence. Render whose league career spanned 21 years, was a model of consistency while Leeds born Lawrence often bamboozled batsmen with his leg breaks and googlies …” It should be stated that for a leggie, Johnny was an extremely accurate bowler but that evidently didn’t make him as accurate as the fast bowler, Render. A Professional in League Cricket from 1934